Genesis 1:2–5

²³I beheld the earth, and, lo, it was without form, and void; and the heavens, and they had no light.

³⁰Thou sendest forth thy spirit, they are created: and thou renewest the face of the earth.

¹⁸For thus saith the Lord that created the heavens; God himself that formed the earth and made it; he hath established it, he created it not in vain, he formed it to be inhabited: I am the Lord; and there is none else.

⁶By the word of the Lord were the heavens made; and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth.

⁷He stretcheth out the north over the empty place, and hangeth the earth upon nothing.

¹²¶ Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance?

¹³Who hath directed the Spirit of the Lord, or being his counseller hath taught him?

¹⁴With whom took he counsel, and who instructed him, and taught him in the path of judgment, and taught him knowledge, and shewed to him the way of understanding?

¹⁴Lo, these are parts of his ways: but how little a portion is heard of him? but the thunder of his power who can understand?

¹⁰She is empty, and void, and waste: and the heart melteth, and the knees smite together, and much pain is in all loins, and the faces of them all gather blackness.

⁶For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

⁵And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.

⁷I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the Lord do all these things.

¹⁹The sun shall be no more thy light by day; neither for brightness shall the moon give light unto thee: but the Lord shall be unto thee an everlasting light, and thy God thy glory.

⁵This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.

⁸For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light:

¹⁹And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.

¹¹Light is sown for the righteous, and gladness for the upright in heart.

⁹That was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world.

⁶By the word of the Lord were the heavens made; and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth.

⁹For he spake, and it was done; he commanded, and it stood fast.

⁵Let them praise the name of the Lord: for he commanded, and they were created.

⁸Again, a new commandment I write unto you, which thing is true in him and in you: because the darkness is past, and the true light now shineth.

¹⁴Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light.

¹⁹Where is the way where light dwelleth? and as for darkness, where is the place thereof,

²Who coverest thyself with light as with a garment: who stretchest out the heavens like a curtain:

¹⁶Who only hath immortality, dwelling in the light which no man can approach unto; whom no man hath seen, nor can see: to whom be honour and power everlasting. Amen.

²⁷God is the Lord, which hath shewed us light: bind the sacrifice with cords, even unto the horns of the altar.

³⁰Behold, he spreadeth his light upon it, and covereth the bottom of the sea.

⁴³And when he thus had spoken, he cried with a loud voice, Lazarus, come forth.

³And Jesus put forth his hand, and touched him, saying, I will; be thou clean. And immediately his leprosy was cleansed.

¹³Then I saw that wisdom excelleth folly, as far as light excelleth darkness.

⁷¶ Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun:

¹⁸And to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good.

³¹And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.

¹²And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good.

¹⁰And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that it was good.

²⁵And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good.

¹⁶The day is thine, the night also is thine: thou hast prepared the light and the sun.

⁷I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the Lord do all these things.

⁵Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness.

²⁰Thou makest darkness, and it is night: wherein all the beasts of the forest do creep forth.

²²While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.

²⁰Thus saith the Lord; If ye can break my covenant of the day, and my covenant of the night, and that there should not be day and night in their season;

⁸And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day.

²Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night sheweth knowledge.

¹³But all things that are reproved are made manifest by the light: for whatsoever doth make manifest is light.

¹³Every man’s work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every man’s work of what sort it is.

²³And the evening and the morning were the fifth day.

³¹And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.

¹³And the evening and the morning were the third day.

¹⁹And the evening and the morning were the fourth day.